http://www.goodreads.com/user/updates_rss/77824 en-US Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:35:22 -0700 60 http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 23625283 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:35:22 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21244957 to: The Outcast (Hardcover)
by Sadie Jones
It took me a few chapters to warm to the prose, which felt a bit clumsy at first -- like big grey blocks the writer kept dropping on my foot -- but as I grew to love the protagonist, I came to see the prose as an essential part of him, an expression of his tortured thought patterns. Which is interesting because the narrative is in shifting close 3rd-person points of view, but Lewis's voice -- or what I came to see as Lewis's voice, angry and raw and intense, colours the whole thing. In the end I couldn't not love Lewis or his story; this isn't a perfect book, but it has Passion, and for that I'm always willing to close one eye to other flaws. It made me cry, and I can never resist a book that does that.

Longer review coming -- I hope -- on Anne's new website, Fiction Writers Review (http://fictionwritersreview.co.... ]]> 22740273 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:24:43 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20518207 Preeta's review of Waiting: A Novel
by Ha Jin

Oh my god, I DID see that story! You're not lying! I wasn't too happy about that story, though; I just don't know if hedgehogs like being wielded as weapons. They're peaceable creatures.

Quite honestly, one of the few things I actually remember about the experience of reading this book is the afore-mentioned crotch ache. ]]> 22726091 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:32:37 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20582392 Slow Loris (Paperback)
by Alexis Deacon
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by Edward Eager
]]> 22642873 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:08:57 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20518207 to: Waiting: A Novel (Paperback)
by Ha Jin
bookshelves: books-for-hedgehogs
This book did make me feel like I was waiting, so maybe it did what it set out to do. But it wasn't a good kind of waiting. It was the kind of waiting I used to do when I would have to go to some government office with my parents and they would make me sit still and behave myself, and I would feel a terrible physical ache in unmentionable parts of my body from having to contain so much desire to fidget. Actually, that sounds a lot more exciting than this book was. ]]> 22642876 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:04:28 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20518210 to: The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (Paperback)
by Michael Ondaatje
]]> 21806573 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:18:38 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19870800 Love Marriage: A Novel (Paperback)
by V.V. Ganeshananthan
bookshelves: to-read
]]> 21028676 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:51:53 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19274559 Saltwater Empire (Paperback)
by Raymond McDaniel
bookshelves: to-read
]]> 20918997 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:22:32 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19187697 to: Middlemarch (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by George Eliot
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